This article is from the Music composition FAQ, by Craig Latta Craig.Latta@NetJam.ORG with numerous contributions by others.
Stochastic music is the name given to a style of generation of
musical ideas developed by Iannis Xenakis, and well described in his
book "Formalized Music". This is not the same as random music, but
rather describes a technique for developing a musical progress with a
random walk-like method.
 
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